Henri-Pierre Danloux

Baron de Besenval in his Study by Henri-Pierre Danloux, 1791. National Gallery, London

Henri-Pierre Danloux, Portrait of a Man, Half-Length, in a Grey Coat, oil on canvas.

Henri-Pierre Danloux (February 24, 1753 – January 3, 1809) was a French painter and draftsman.

He was born in Paris. Brought up by his architect uncle, Danloux was a pupil of Lépicié and later of Vien, whom he followed to Rome in 1775. In 1783, he returned to Lyon and Paris, where he was patroned by the Baronne Mégret de Sérilly d'Etigny, who secured for him a number of important portrait commissions. He emigrated to London in 1792 during the French Revolution and returned to Paris in 1801. Danloux was influenced by fashionable English portrait painters such as Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), John Hoppner (1758–1810), and George Romney (1734–1802). In 1793, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London which resulted in commissions from a number of British patrons. Danloux returned to Paris in 1801, and died there in 1809.

See also

• The Skating Minister

External links

• Henri-Pierre Danloux on the Joconde database